Consultation
We talk. Bring a photograph, a sketch, an heirloom, or nothing at all. In person on Michigan Avenue, or virtually.
The Loop, Chicago · Since 1997
Jewelry designed for one person.
Second-generation custom jewelers in downtown Chicago. Designing engagement rings and remaking heirlooms since 1997, one conversation at a time.
GIA Graduate Gemologist
Second generation, since 1997
Downtown Chicago studio
No. 01
Design something new
An engagement ring, a band, a piece that exists nowhere else. Start with a photo, a sketch, or nothing at all.
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No. 02
Remake something you already own
Her ring, your hand. A brooch becomes a pendant, earrings become a ring. The stones stay; the story continues.
Start a restyle →
The studio
Trained as a designer. Credentialed as a gemologist.
I studied design before I ever studied diamonds, and the two disciplines meet at this bench every day. Most of what leaves this studio began as a conversation: a photograph on a phone, a stone from a grandmother's ring, a sketch on the back of an envelope.
My job is to listen until the piece makes sense, then draw it, then build it. Since 1997 I have run the studio my mother founded, and the work is still done the same way: one client, one piece, one story at a time.
Andrea
- GIA Graduate Gemologist
- GIA Accredited Jewelry Professional
- JBAR Appraisal Course
- WJA Midwest Board, 2001–04
- Design Training, Portfolio Center
The process
How a ring happens here.
Four steps, no mystery. You see the piece at every stage before it exists, and nothing moves forward without you.
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Design
A hand sketch first, then CAD. Formal design training means the drawing is the craft, not an afterthought.
Approval
Review the 3D render from every angle. Change anything. Nothing is cast until it is exactly right.
The bench
Made, set, and finished locally. Every stone checked by a Graduate Gemologist before it leaves the studio.
Selected work
See all work
Made for one person at a time.
Client stories
The moment it comes home.
Alexa absolutely loved the ring. It was beyond her expectations, and everyone has been impressed with the creative style.
Zach B. · Custom engagement ring
She took great care to ensure the pavé in my engagement ring would not be harmed by the wedding band. Kind, honest, and so easy to work with.
Amanda Vlcek · A bridal set
We met with her to redesign my engagement ring. I love how the existing stone looks in its new setting, and I find myself looking at my left hand as if I were just engaged.
Jean Patrick · A redesign, years on
Fine jewelry
A small collection, finished and ready.
The journal
Notes from the bench.
The studio · Visits by appointment
8 S. Michigan Avenue,
8 S. Michigan Avenue,
Suite 802
The Loop, Chicago.
One block from Millennium Park, eight floors up. A private studio, not a showroom floor: when you visit, the appointment is yours alone.
(312) 782-7004
Getting here
Enter at 8 S. Michigan, take the elevator to the eighth floor, Suite 802.
Consultations
In person or virtual. Complimentary, about an hour.